As Philip Rucker and Karen Tumulty at The Washington Post put it, “a defiant Donald Trump used the high-profile setting of the final presidential debate here Wednesday night to amplify one of the most explosive charges of his candidacy: that if he loses the election, he might consider the outcome illegitimate because the process is rigged.”

From the story: Questioned directly as to whether he would accept the outcome should Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton prevail on Nov. 8, Trump demurred. “I will keep you in suspense,” the Republican nominee said. Clinton called Trump’s answer “horrifying,” saying he was “talking down our democracy.”

What’s that about tradition? On the flip side, there’s this: 1993 Letter from George H.W. Bush to Bill Clinton Resurfaces, Goes Viral. In the piece by Rachel Dicker at U.S News & World Report, we learn about/are reminded of a 1993 letter from George H.W. Bush to Bill Clinton getting renewed attention for the dignity and respect with which an outgoing president addressed his successor even after a hard-fought race. Journalist after journalist after journalist retweeted this tweet from Russell Blair of the Hartford Courant: “When Bush lost to Clinton in '92, this is how he handled it.” Hillary Clinton posted the note on her Instagram and wrote in the comments: “It moved me to tears, just like it did all those years ago. It’s the letter that President Bush left in the Oval Office for my husband, back in January of 1993. They had just fought a fierce campaign. Bill won, President Bush lost. In a democracy, that’s how it goes.”

Meanwhile, while you were watching the debate, Trump just launched Trump TV. That from Charlie Warzel over at BuzzFeed, who reports that minutes before the third and final presidential debate, Donald Trump went live on Facebook in what may have been the inaugural broadcast of a forthcoming Trump News Network. A little after 8:30, Trump's official Facebook page posted the link to the live video, offering up an alternative to the mainstream broadcast. BuzzFeed editor Ben Smith managed to sum up this story in two words: “Um guys.” Smith also pointed out a pretty interesting fact: “160,000+ people are watching the debate on Trump TV.” That's quite an impressive number for a Facebook Live, no?

In election-related news from South America, the U.S. pushed Ecuador to act against Assange, say officials. According to Ken Dilanian, William M. Arkin and Robert Windrem at NBC News, quiet pressure from the U.S. government played a role in Ecuador's decision to block Wikileaks founder Julian Assange from using the internet at Ecuador's London embassy. "It was a bit of an eviction notice," said a senior intelligence official. All of those tweets from the other day assuming someone forgot to pay the internet bill appear to be wrong.

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